COMMENT | Don’t blame non-Malays for Sg Bakap defeat

“If you always vote for the lesser of two evils, you will always have evil, and you will always have less.” ― Ralph Nader

COMMENT | Perikatan Nasional’s secretary general Hamzah Zainudin said this about the results of Sungai Bakap polls, “this result is also proof of the people’s rejection of arrogant and haughty leaders, who purposefully close their ears and hearts to the suffering of the people, burdened by the rising cost of living”.

When you think about it, it is what made the Malays come out to vote in large numbers and made the non-Malays, for the most part, sit out of this by-election.

Umno veteran's association leader Mustapha Yaakub blames DAP for the lack of non-Malay voter turnout but doesn’t stop to think that by sitting out of this by-election, perhaps the non-Malays were sending a message to DAP and of course, the Madani state.

After all, Penang Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow claimed that the coalition government lost the narrative to PN, but this is...